Robin W. Justice

TL;DR: The results raise the possibility that homozygous loss of the myotonic dystrophy kinase may contribute to the development of multiple pilomatrixomas and with other tumors including neurofibromas and parathyroid adenomas.

TL;DR: This case represents the first documented instance of a specific A. gambiae OBP–ligand pairing combination, demonstrates the significance of OBPs in odor recognition, and can be expanded to the identification of other ligands for OBPs of Anopheles and other medically important insects.

TL;DR: The neurogenic mutants, including Notch, show conversion of epidermal cells to neuroblasts, leading to the ‘neurogenic’ phenotype of excess nervous tissue, supporting indications from human cancer that cadherins play an important role in tumor suppression.

TL;DR: Recent work on the molecular identification of tumor suppressor genes that function in two different cell types of the Drosophila larva: the blood cells, and the undifferentiated epithelial cells of developing imaginal discs is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide methods and compositions for using chemosensory proteins derived from invertebrates to bind or detect specific compounds, such as odorant binding proteins (OBPs), sensory appendage proteins (SAPs), orthologs of the Drosophila melanogaster Takeout protein (TOLs), odorant or gustatory receptors (ORs, GRs, or collectively GPCRs), other serpentine receptors, and odorant degrading enzymes (ODEs).